Item #53834 Les loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus ... nouvelle edition. Domat, Jean.
Les loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus ... nouvelle edition
Les loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus ... nouvelle edition

Les loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus ... nouvelle edition

Paris: Chez Nyon, 1767. 4 vols. in one, ostensibly complete but with two leaves of vol. II bound in with the preliminaries of vol. I (those leaves repeated and present again where required in vol. II). With a smattering of signature anomalies but overall collating as π^4 e^4(?) a-d^4 e^2 A-3V^4 3X^1; π^1 a^1(signed A3) *^1 a^4 e^4 A-2N^4; *^4 a-ff^4 2g^1; a^3 b-h^2; π^1 a^2 A-2F^2. Full mottled calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments with tan labels in two, red dyed edges, marbled endpapers; light edgewear, two-inch split on upper hinge, closed tear on flyleaf, small waterstain on title page not affecting rest of textblock, a very good, sound, and clean copy. Together with Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre, Antoine Favre and the Godefroy brothers, Domat was one of the few later French scholars of Roman law of international significance. He is principally known from his elaborate legal digest, in three quarto volumes, under the title of Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel (1689, with 68 later editions), an undertaking for which Louis XIV settled on him a pension of 2,000 livres. A fourth volume, Le droit public, was published in 1697, a year after his death. After Hugo Doneau's more thorough but less consistent Commentarii iuris civilis (1589), the work was the first of this type of pan-European significance. It was to become one of the principal sources of the ancien droit on which the Napoleonic Code was later founded (Wikipedia). Item #53834

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